Now that I look closer at your original message, I should have been able to tell that from the paths. As Joshua already said, apachectl responds to all or nearly all of the same switches that httpd does, so use the appropriate combination to control the separate instances. My main point was not to write your own control script when a well-tested one comes with Apache. -- Craig Dunigan IS Technical Services Specialist Middleware - EIS - DoIT University of Wisconsin, Madison opinions expressed are my own, not the University's On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Spike Burkhardt wrote: > Craig, > > thanks for the info. What I did forget to mention is that the > multiple instances are running from the same directory tree. > > spike > > Craig Dunigan wrote: > > >Each instance should already have its own control script, apachectl, > >in the bin directory, with paths specific to that instance. > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx